Hotel Baía Bar Lounge

With each new hotel in Luanda comes a new hotel bar and lounge and a new place for us to go have a drink or three. Hotel Baía is one of the newer hotels in the city and owned by Teixeira Duarte, the same Portuguese corporation that owns Hotel Alvalade and Hotel Trópico. Although all the aforementioned hotels have four stars, Hotel Baía is the best of the three by a large margin.

The top-floor lounge at Hotel Baía is on the 8th floor. We went at about 8pm one night and stayed for two hours. Paid parking is available as you enter the building’s premises. There is both an indoor and outdoor area; the outdoor area features a pool and a beautiful ocean-side view. Usually there are chairs, small tables and chaise lounges scattered around the pool, but on this particular night that we took the photos there was a special event taking place (unfortunately on regular nights there are no fancy candles scattered about). Besides the bar, the indoor lounge has futons, a plasma, about 8 to 10 tables and semba music playing softly in the background. The lounge is quite discreet and upmarket, making it a great place to have business meetings. If you want more than just drinks, the are snacks, a few main dishes and desserts available.

Overall, service was of near excellent quality, the place was spotless and well maintained throughout, and tables, glasses, and cutlery were all clean. Seeing that this is primarily a lounge, there aren’t many food choices on the menu, but the little that we ate was tasty and the drinks were well made. We waited less than a minute for our bill. This is definitely a lounge we recommend…watching the sunset next to the pool with a drink in hand is something everyone should do more often.